Homebrew upgrade results in clang install every time

Question

Recently with macos 12.6 - after running

homebrew upgrade

I was getting a prompt to install clang. I was not paying attention to the console and installed it. But it kept on happening and I kept on installing clang. As this issue might repeat I would like to share my solution

Answer 1

#1 - this is related to xcode unapplied update to OS 16 and it's packages. Launch Xcode and update everything requested

#2 -

xcodebuild -runFirstLaunch

You can also use this command. Hopefully my steps will solve your issue. Couldn't find solution anywhere, so decided to share it here